Eminem Renames "Relapse 2" to "Recovery"

Last night Eminem confused the world through his Twitter asserting that there was no Relapse 2. Fortunately the rapper referred to a title change for the project and not its withdrawal. The much-anticipated new album from the famed rapper is now titled Recovery and will be released June 22, 2010, as his label Interscope Records announced today. Here’s how Eminem explains the new title:

I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year. But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.

The opus will mark the rapper’s seventh major label studio album. It boasts a list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others whereas the first single will be produced by Jim Jonsin. Eminem releases Recovery just over a year after his last album, 2009’s Relapse.